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Book

A researcher's guide to Boston

Call Number

  • H 929.374461 L187 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003.

Physical Description

xii, 161 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Summary

The records pertaining to people who lived or passed through Boston, Massachusetts, are located in many different repositories and publications. For there first time, here is a complete guide for finding and using this information.

Contents

  • Getting started
  • Vital records
  • Church records
  • Cemetery records
  • Town records
  • Probate records
  • Land records
  • Court records
  • City directories
  • Military records and seaman's records
  • Tax lists
  • Business papers, account books, and diaries
  • Censuses
  • Voters' lists
  • Teachers' records
  • Passenger lists
  • Naturalizations
  • Immigrants in print
  • Some miscellaneous sources
  • Boston in print
  • Towns that are now part of Boston
  • Articles on Boston families
  • Boston area repositories
  • Massachusetts divorce records, where to find them
  • Ministers in Boston up to 1846
  • Home for destitute Catholic children
  • Boston Record Commissioners report
  • Inventory of the estate of Amasa Davis
  • 1860 census Ward One, Boston
  • Examples from institutional records.

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